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For my tidying project, I chose a cassette player to order and found some info on taking apart my scanner.<\/strong> The cassette player will let me preserve some valuable old recordings. My scanner has a dead bug under the glass that causes a smudge on my scans, so I need to open it up to clean it off. Then I can preserve some valuable old papers. There are no exact instructions for my model online, so I got some advice from several chat bots, found some manuals and videos, and learned enough to try out some first steps.<\/p>\n :thinking:<\/p>\n I contemplated AI as a chaos monster.<\/strong> One meme<\/a> going around portrays AI as a Lovecraftian shoggoth<\/a>, and this image feels very fitting to me. Here’s the artist\u2019s explanation<\/a>. ChatGPT even admitted it<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09 Last week\u2019s listening in the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery<\/em> covered monsters, including Leviathan, the Old Testament’s symbol of cosmic chaos. This led me to ponder other biblical imagery that could apply to AI. On the negative side: Babel, disaster, judgment, slave, idol. On the positive: child, partner. I\u2019m hoping to have more thoughts on this to share in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Housekeeping \ud83d\ude42 For my tidying project, I chose a cassette player to order and found some info on taking apart my scanner. The cassette player will let me preserve some valuable old recordings. My scanner has a dead bug under … Continue reading AI<\/h2>\n